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It opened the door to learning.
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In 1455, Gutenberg produced what is considered to be the first book ever printed: a Latin language Bible, printed in Mainz, Germany.
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In the book Copernicus placed the sun at the center of the universe and argued that the Earth moved across the heavens as one of the planets.
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The most powerful and enthusiastic patron of Renaissance culture in Italy.
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It is a 14.0 ft marble statue depicting the Biblical hero David, represented as a standing male nude.
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Mona Lisa, oil painting on a poplar wood panel by the Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer Leonardo da Vinci, probably the world’s most-famous painting.
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Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire.
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Priest and scholar Martin Luther approaches the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, and nails a piece of paper to it containing the 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the Protestant Reformation.
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King Henry VIII wanted to divorce his wife, Catherine of Aragon and when Pope Clement VII refused to consent to the divorce, he decided to separate the entire country of England from the Roman Catholic Church.
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William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist.
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Galileo Galilei invented a rudimentary water thermoscope, which for the first time, allowed temperature variations to be measured.
